Here I am back at the blog again. I will try to post a couple of times a week. Byron simply loves his daycare. Coincidentally his teacher, who is a wonderful local musician, is also a practitioner of Siddha Yoga and regularly visited the Ashram. His wife has been involved since 1973. Byron seems to attract people from Siddha Yoga. His service coordinator, the woman who saved our life when Byron was first diagnosed by coordinating all his therapy and getting us some much needed family therapy, was also a frequent visitor to the ashram. Cool!The big news is that Byron will most probably begin preschool on January 3rd. Yep - pre School with a capital "S" at the local elementary school. The class will have six special needs kids and 6 "typical" kids and will be from 8am - 2pm every day. The kids are allowed to rest after lunch so Byron shouldn't get to worn out. He will only be 2 years and 9 months old after all. He will be in this class right up until Kindergarden in 2012 and then will transition to Kindergarden at the same school. The school is only 1.5 miles form our house so I will drive him there every day. The reason why I say he will "most probably" start there is because he has to have a final approval meeting on December 2 to get all the ducks in a row. But everyone thinks it will go through just fine. It is unprecedented for the public school to have an opening in this very sought after class in January so we are very lucky - the head of the early childhood program in Ithaca said that it must be Byron's "Karma" - I think so!
Byron will also receive all his therapy appointments in this class, but with different therapists. We will be very sad to leave this wonderful group of therapists/friends that have guided Byron through his milestones with such love and tender care. But I'm sure his new therapists will also be wonderful and can't wait to meet them. His care will now be coordinated by the School District until Kindergarden and then I'm not sure what happens after that. More soon!
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